The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 100
Bellah only drew it the tighter, and, flinging the sorceress into a pit, she rolled a great stone across the mouth, and left her.
Who acts: Bellah · What happens: draw, fling, roll, leave · To what, where: asunder, sorceress, pit, great stone, mouth, Bellah
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tighter | det |
| 6 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 drew | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flinging | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flinging | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flinging | punct |
| 10 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drew | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sorceress | det |
| 12 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flinging | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pit | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pit | det |
| 15 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flinging | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rolled | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rolled | nsubj |
| 18 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stone | amod |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rolled | obj |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mouth | det |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rolled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 left | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 left | cc |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rolled | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Bellah | asunder | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling | gerund | Bellah not said here | the sorceress | a pit | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sorceress=Theme into pit=Destination | |||
| 3 | roll | past | Bellah | a great stone | the mouth | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stone=Theme across mouth=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | leave | past | Bellah not said here | Bellah | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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